Water flows through an SUV on the Poudre Canyon Highway west of Ted's Place on Tuesday morning. The car was traveling west and carrying two people before crashing.

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A 36-year-old man from Virginia died and another man was injured after a vehicle crashed into the Poudre River west of Fort Collins sometime early this morning.

Investigators have not released the identities of the two men involved in the crash, around mile marker 18 and Picnic Rock on Colorado Highway 14 in the Poudre Canyon.

The crash occurred sometime between midnight and 5 a.m. this morning. A passing vehicle's occupants noticed skid marks on the road shortly before 6 a.m. and notified authorities. One man was found floating in the river and another was on the bank of the river. ...